This is a screen for oils found in plants from the Composite family. Allergy can be to direct contact with the plant and/or pollen or to skin care products that use the plant extracts. Outdoor occupations and hobbyists are at an increased risk of exposure.
Please be aware that if your spouse or significant other uses topical skin care products that contain this chemical, skin-to-skin transfer may occur to you.
It may take 2 or 3 weeks of avoiding exposure before improvement of your eruption begins.
Possible Occupational Exposures:
Florists
Farmers
Chefs
Forestry workers
Sesquiterpene Lactone Mix
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Where is it found?
What is it?
Hints on avoiding:
Cosmetics
Creams
Lotions
Ointments
Topical medicines (especially "natural")
Plants where it is found?
Sunflower
Tansy
Tulip tree
Whitewood of commerce
Wormwood
Yarrow
Lettuce
Liverwort
Marguerite
Marigold
Marsh elder
Oxeye
Pyrethrum
Ragweed
Sagebrush
Sneezeweed
Sow thistle
Star thistle
Stinkwort
Arnica
Artichoke, globe
Artichoke,wild
Bitterweed
Boneset
Broomweed
Burdock
Capeweed
Chamomile, Roman
Chamomile,German
Champaca of perfumery
Chicory
Chrysanthemum
Cocklebur
Cosmos
Costus of perfumery
Cotton thistle
Encelia
Feverfew
Fireweed
Fleabane
Gayule
Hampweed
Ironweed
Laurel oil
Leafcup
This information is provided as educational only and is
not intended to substitute for medical care or recommendations by a physician.